Improvement in buttons



UNITED STATES- PATENT OEEcEa CHARLES I". SPENCER, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUTTONS.

Specification forming'part of Letters Patent N0. 59,090, dated October 23, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES F. SPENCER, of the city of Rochester, in the State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Fastening Buttons; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and the letters and marks thereon, which said drawings form part of this specication.

My invention has for its object the convenient and secure attachment of buttons to any piece of wearing-apparel, the means used for aftixing the button thereto allowing of the ready removal of the button, or the replacing of any one or more when broken or injured.

The several figures of the drawings show how my invention may be carried out when applied to the ordinary disk or round button, and it is evident the invention is also applicable to buttons ot' other forms, whether made of metal, porcelain, glass, or other material.

Figure lof these drawings is a view by horizontal section through the button, its stem, and means for fastening, with the cloth to which the button is attached. Fig. 2 is aview of the inner side of the cloth or garment, showing the relative position of the slots of the fastening plates or disks. Fig. 3 is a perspective view ofthe plates and button before being attached to the garment. Fig. 4 is a view of the two plates or disks, with their slots in line with each other, as when ready to be attached to the stein of the button; and Fig. 5 is a view of the button and stem without the disks or plates.

In each of these gures like marks and letters are used to indicate like parts.

From these several figures, it will be seen that the button a has affixed to it, in any suitable way, a stem, b, having a head, c.

The means for holding the button to the garment are two plates, d and e, which may be slightly of dished form, the one fitting within the rim of the other, as indicated by Fig. 1, or otherwise suitably connected to each other, and having each a slot or radial opening, the outer end of the slot being widened out for the passage of the head of the stem.

Instead ofthe slot here shown-a slit extending through the edge of thc plates or disks-anv open slit may be used, or the `slot may be curved or of ri ght-angular form.

To attach the but-ton to the garment, it will only be required to pass the stem through a small hole inthe cloth orfabric, and then to pass the head of the stem through the widened end of the slots, or through the slits, and, carrying the head to the center of the plates or disks, then to turn the one disk from the other, s0 that the slots or slits, which were in line with each other when the head was passed in and to the center, will be out ot' line, and consequently act to hold the button to the cloth or garment.

The edge of the disks resting upon the cloth will have more friction than the head oi' the stem on the plates, so that there will not be any tendency toward the moving ot' the slots ot the disks in line, thus liberating the button. The means for holding the button to the garment are, therefore, ample, and the button will be securely held in place, though it may readily be detached when necessary.

It is not requisite that the plates with the slots should be of the form here represented, as other shape or form of plates may be used.

.What I claim as my invention, and desire 

